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At least 48 people are killed and 78 wounded in the 27 January 2011 Baghdad bombing. A car bomb targeting
Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mos ...
s was detonated at a funeral tent in the north-western Shula district of
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
.Bomb at Baghdad funeral in Shia Muslim area kills 48
''BBC''. 27 January 2011. Accessed 29 January 2011


See also

* January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks *
24 January 2011 Iraq bombings The 24 January 2011 Iraq bombings were a series of four explosions, two in Baghdad and two in Karbala, which killed at least 27 people and wounded at least 78 more. Two blasts, caused by roadside bombs, occurred in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the ...


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